This book offers a continuation of the translation of the beginning of Jam-yang-zhay-pa Ngag-wang-tsön-drü’s Decisive Analysis of (Chandrakīrti’s) “Supplement to (Nāgārjuna’s) ‘Treatise on the Middle’”: Treasury of Scripture and Reasoning, Thoroughly Illuminating the Profound Meaning [of Emptiness], Entrance for the Fortunate, also called Decisive Analysis of the Middle and Great Exposition of the Middle. Since its publication in 1695, Jam-yang-zhay-pa’s remarkable treatise has served as a textbook crucial to the study of the Middle Way School in the Gomang College of the Drepung Monastery and related institutions throughout Inner Asia. It brings sharply into focus the manner in which the Indian master Chandrakīrti’s momentous Supplement to (Nāgārjuna’s) “Fundamental Treatise on the Middle Called ‘Wisdom’” both enhances Nāgārjuna’s reasoned inquiry into the meaning of emptiness and departs from other explanations of Nāgārjuna’s thought. In addition, Jam-yang-zhay-pa’s mature and relentlessly uncompromising exploration of the most meaningful themes that Chandrakīrti touches upon either briefly or at length gradually assembles an exhaustive clarification and vigorous defense of the revolutionary reading of Chandrakīrti’s Supplement that Tsong-kha-pa Lo-sang-drag-pa had composed three centuries earlier.

This third volume analyzes in a decisive manner the torrent of questions that arise when one attempts to understand clearly and precisely just how Hearers and Solitary Realizers are, in different ways, born from Buddhas. Relying upon Tsong-kha-pa’s insightful explanation of Chandrakīrti’s Supplement, and augmenting it with rigorous explorations of terminology, scriptural sources, and elements fundamental to a systematic account of the paths traversed by Hearers and Solitary Realizers seeking liberation from the beginningless cycle of death and rebirth, Jam-yang-zhay-pa employs the technology of syllogistic debate to reach a definitive statement of the Middle Way Consequence School’s portrait of the journey Hearers and Solitary Realizers make toward the fulfillment they so earnestly desire as well as the manner in which they finally attain liberation.